Exploring Theme: "Systemic Racism"

APTN News: A video uploaded to social media shows a visibly Indigenous 16-year-old girl being surrounded and detained by six security guards at a shopping mall in Surrey, B.C. The guards eventually force her to the floor. One has their knee in her back and neck. “What are you doing to her man,” one person...

New wrongful conviction process would rely on commission instead of minister Clarence Woodhouse (right) speaks with Sen. Kim Pate in Ottawa on Oct. 24 as Brian Anderson looks on. Photo: Mark Blackburn/APTN News  APTN News: Clarence Woodhouse was barely an adult when homicide detectives accused him of killing a man in 1973. The false confession...

Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice hopes to of chronicle the history of First Nation, Inuit and Metis women and girls being forcefully sterilized and getting a better idea of how many people it affected. Toronto Star: newly-formed group is launching a national registry of Indigenous Peoples who were forced or coerced into sterilization, and is...

Job applicant, an Indigenous woman, alleged discrimination and complained to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. NationTalk: Times Colonist – VANCOUVER — The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has been ordered to pay $51,800 for discriminating against an Indigenous woman after it offered her a job as an investigator — then withdrew the offer — because...

On TVO Today’s “NDN POV,” Indigenous experts discuss the causes of the problem — and what can be done to make change Written by Chris Beaver Indigenous people represent just 5 per cent of Canada’s population, yet 32 per cent of those incarcerated in federal prisons are Indigenous. (Jasmine El Kurd) NationTalk: TVO – Indigenous people...

An advocate is calling for transparency in the Vancouver police investigation. The Tyee: Flowers marked the spot where a 37-year-old Indigenous woman was found dying on a Vancouver sidewalk just before dawn on March 30. Despite first responders’ efforts, she died at the scene. Two weeks after her death, an advocate for abused women is...

APTN News: People stand outside a gym in Vancouver on Sunday pushing against the booking of a comedy troupe known as the Danger Cats. The show was kept secret – for a spell – until word got out. The trio has made headlines across the country after several shows were cancelled. “This isn’t a joke,...

Several factors from funding to distrust of colonial systems may contribute to the sentencing decisions  APTN News: A report from Statistics Canada shows that there’s a disparity in the way homicide cases involving Indigenous women and girls are handled in the Canadian legal system. Data between 2009 and 2021 indicated that first-degree murder charges, the...

The case of a convicted Indigenous elder who was performing a pipe ceremony inspired the play The Judge’s Daughter. Screen grab from Vancouver Fringe Festival website  Canada’s National Observer:On July 25, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled on a historic case that has been winding through the court system for more than three years. It...

Non-Indigenous people charged with crimes are more likely to receive bail than Indigenous people Jeremy Appel / Local Journalism Initiative Reporter / Alberta Native News Jul 20, 2023 10:00 PM NationTalk: Saskatoon Today: ALBERTA NATIVE NEWS — Saskatchewan has Canada’s highest rate of Indigenous over-representation in provincial custody, with Alberta in second place, according to new data...

Sgt. Val Spicer: “It’s not a trend that you can change overnight.” NationTalk: Vancouver is Awesome – Indigenous girls under 18 years old were the most overrepresented victims of violence in Vancouver over the past 12 months, according to new data compiled by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD). The next two groups of victims based...